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Power and solidarity at the grassroots
In an age of professionalization, both of politicians and of activists, the journey of self-taught politicization of the Focus E15 mothers is a remarkable one – and an example of genuine, grass-roots...
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The 2014 Bulgarian parliamentary elections aftermath: descent into the...
This has been the most interesting and unpredictable Bulgarian election since the country's transition to democracy. So what happens now?Boyko Borisov, leader of Bulgaria's GERB party. Flickr/EPP. Some...
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The right to neighbourhood: way out of a sectarian quagmire
In Damascus there are no direct routes linking Jaramana to Mhajirin, or the Yarmouk camp to Sayyida Zayneb - each home to different communities stratified along lines of class and religious belonging....
View ArticleSecularism at risk in Sub-Saharan secular states: the challenges for Senegal...
Secularism is being challenged in several Sub-Saharan African states which have long guarded it as a principle of governance. Its preservation is important for women because it allows them to protect...
View ArticleHow has Modi performed in 100 days in office?
Just after assuming office, the government was plunged into controversy for issuing an ordinance to amend the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) Act, to facilitate the appointment of its...
View ArticleProminent Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti jailed for life
With its shocking outcome, this trial might result in an increase in violence in the Xinjiang region, where protests for the mistreatment of a moderate voice could motivate the more radical...
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Resistance, repression, and the cycle of violence in the Uyghur Struggle
Is the state actively engaged in decreasing participation in nonviolent resistance and delegitimizing Uyghur grievances by highlighting escalating violence?100 members of the Uyghur community in Oslo,...
View ArticleA parallel moment not to be missed: for old nations, new times
Anthony Barnett on the rise of UKIP at a particular moment for Scotland and England. (Video)On the eve of the Scottish Independence Referendum, Luath publishing launched a collection of essays by the...
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European Day of Action: Together, let's roll back power!
What is the European Day of Action? Why are people protesting against TTIP? A guide to the Saturday, 11 October protests taking place across the continent.Location of the different Day of Action...
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The national shame that is healthcare in UK immigration detention
Four years ago today, G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they're winning NHS contracts to provide medical care for . . . immigration...
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The EAF is dead! Long live the MENL!
The Front National has long been at the centre of pan-European party initiatives, which were always dominated by former FN leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. The EAF was founded without FN-involvement,...
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The hazards of going to war for profit
The privatisation of military force causes problems that can’t be addressed by regulation alone.Main image: G4S marketing. ArmorGroup party picture: Project on Government OversightFor every US soldier...
View ArticleBulgaria in limbo
A messy election in a troubling time leaves Bulgarians still waiting for light.There is both good and bad news about Bulgaria. The good news is that the general election on 5 October 2014 did not, as...
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The art of dissent: twenty years of philosophy football
For the last twenty years I have been organising Philosophy Football FC, a team which started with eleven ideologically sound players who had trouble defending inswinging...
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How not to understand ISIS
The view that one particular religious doctrine is uniquely extremist won’t help us to appreciate the cycles of brutality that feed on narratives of torture, murder and desecration. The ISIS flag....
View ArticleConscientious objection: Virginia Woolf's ideas live on
In her 1938 essay Three Guineas, Virginia Woolfdefined patriarchy, militarism and nationalism as sources of war. Marta Correia finds Women in Black Belgrade acting out Woolf's call to 'disobedience'...
View ArticleA police cell is no place for the young and vulnerable
Self-inflicted deaths in custody are at a ten-year high in the UK. Many of those who kill themselves have been locked in police cells because no alternatives are available. Campaigners welcome a new...
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Kilburn Manifesto: Rethinking the neoliberal world order
Neoliberalism is an international phenomena. It is not enough to challenge it in Britain alone, we must also understand it and oppose it as a global system.The Kilburn Manifesto is a statement being...
View ArticleBeing Malala
Recipients of humanitarian awards often invite controversy. In Pakistan, religious and political identities are valued more than the contributions of such recipients. Malala Yousafzai may have the...
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Democratic decline in the Maldives: will the world wake up?
When Gayoom the elder was president, the government sought to facilitate the entrance of Islamist groups into the Maldives. The resumption of this now may be another opportunity for proponents of...
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